Forgotten Accents

Steven R. Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Tue Nov 12 02:54:00 EST 2002


On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 01:14 AM, Richard Ghilardi wrote:

> Dear B-Greekers,
>
> I seem to have forgotten my accents!
>
> Jn 3:28 -- AUTOI hUMEIS MOI MARTUREITE hOTI EIPON [hOTI] OUK EIMI hO
> CRISTOS...
>
> In this verse why is OUK EIMI accented OUK EIMI\ in NA27 and not OUK
> EI/MI? According to Smyth 187b it should be accented OUK EI/MI. Or does
> the difference in person make all the difference? And why?

Richard, Smyth 187b only applies to 3rd sing of EIMI. Machen has the 
following:

"After OUK and certain other words the third person singular present 
indicative of EIMI is accented on the first syllable. This does not 
apply to the other forms of EIMI."
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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